Open House

Welcome Parents!
Over the past month many exciting things have been happening in fourth grade as the students think, imagine, create, and reflect. The class is developing into strong community where students show genuine care and respect for each other and their ideas.
Classroom Projects

• Monarch Project
• Focuses on life cycles, and caring for other living organisms
• Participating in a scientific research project

• Monster Project
• Involves of 20 schools from all over the world (Pakistan, Japan, Taiwan, and United States)
• Focuses on Collaboration, Decision Making, & Critical Thinking
• Looking for Parent Volunteers

• Internet Chess Match
• State Capitol & Wikipedia, Digital Storytelling

Tidbits

• Math - Investigations Student Handbook
• Multiplication and Division
  

  M3-M4.pdf
  

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• Parent/Teacher Conferences/ Mid-term progress report (rubric)

*Classroom Website**

• Over 1,200 visitors from four continents
• Blogging
  

  Pages and Pastries.pdf
  

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• Expanding beyond the walls of the classroom
• Models responsible use of the internet
• Homework
• Portaportal gives links to various different website

Life-long Learning

• Pages and Pastries
  

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*21st century
Brain Research and a Digital Learning Environment - Ian Jukes
Our Changing World/Global Thinkers - Tim Tyson
Sir Ken Robinson